Page 19 of Take the Sub and Run

Andrei spread the fingers of the hand he had wrapped in her hair, massaging her head for a moment with the pads of his forefingers while his thumb kept her hair securely wrapped around his palm. She leaned back into the gentle scalp massage, a quiet acknowledgment of his equally quiet praise.

He wanted to be harsh but found himself needing to be gentle, which is why he leaned in, lips nearly against her ear. "I see you chose to be a bad girl right from the start."

"What?" The alarm in her voice made him smile and he was glad she couldn't see the way his lips twitched.

"I told you to be naked. And here you are wearing clothes."

"This is underwear, not clothes."

“Are you naked?"

"Technically perhaps not," she hedged.

Andrei chuckled, splaying his free hand over her belly to pull her back against him so she could feel the way his body rumbled with amusement. It was insanely gratifying to feel her instantly melt back against him, and he used his hold on her hair to pull her head to one side and rest it against his shoulder.

"You should know better than to play semantics with a Dom."

"I was nervous."

The soft honesty gutted him. Andrei's stomach muscles clenched as if he'd taken a blow to the middle. It was insane how everything she said or did elicited overtly intense responses.

Andrei closed his eyes and seriously considered stepping back and taking a break. Just to get himself under control.

But that wouldn't be fair to her. This early in the scene, especially with a new partner, submissives were intensely emotionally vulnerable. He was certain that would be even more true for his angel. If he walked away now to gather himself, he doubted she would be this soft and trusting the next time he took her in his arms.

"Nervous, or were you trying to get that spanking I know you want?"

"No. No, I know that topping from the bottom is bad. That's what that would be, right?"

Andrei rubbed his hand side to side across her waist, enjoying the way her abdominal muscles fluttered and tensed under the touch.

"If a sub feels the need to top from the bottom, it means the pre-scene negotiation didn't go well. If a sub has very specific needs she knows have to happen in the scene for her to feel satisfied, then those should be listed out during negotiation. So as I said, if she feels the need to top and bottom during the scene, it means that negotiation didn't go the way it needed to."

"We can negotiate again if you want…" Sofie sounded unsure.

"If I thought you were trying to top from the bottom, that is what we would do right now. But you aren't, are you?"

The tension that had crept into her muscles eased away. "No, Sir."

Andrei slid his hands down until the tips of two fingers brushed the waistband of her panties. Then he forced her hips back against him, until his rock-hard cock was digging in to the top of her ass. Hearing that "Sir" from her lips made him ravenous.

Sofie gasped when he wiggled his hips so his cock was firmly wedged in the top crease between her pretty ass cheeks, his pants an unwelcome barrier.

"I think being a bad girl was your way of being a very good girl, and giving me an easy reason to spank you."

"Do you need a reason?" she asked in a low husky voice.

"No. I don't." He gave in to the urge that had been riding him and pressed his lips to the soft spot under her ear. A whole-body shiver wracked her. If she was that sensitive, this was going to be so much fun.

"But," he went on, "it's fun, isn't it? When I tell you that you're going to get a spanking because you're a bad girl who tried to hide this pretty body for me."

"Am I?" she asked, sounding genuinely inquisitive rather than mocking. "Am I going to get a spanking, I mean."

"Is this your way of telling me I'm going too slow?"

"No. If you were going slow, I'd tell you."

"Angel, you are always welcome to tell me anything. In fact, I want to know everything. I want to know how the things I do to you make you feel."

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